Liz Sorenson Brotten is a Partner in Foley Mansfield’s Minneapolis office, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, and the chair of the firm’s Product Liability Practice Group. She devotes her practice to defending product manufacturers, suppliers, and installers in high-risk product liability and toxic tort cases. Her experience includes serving as national coordinating counsel in the defense of asbestos claims pending throughout the country and defending one of the largest product liability lawsuits in North Dakota history following a catastrophic train derailment. Liz defends clients in talc, asbestos, benzene, and Legionnaire’s Disease cases throughout the upper Midwest. She has tried cases to verdict in both Minnesota and North Dakota courts.

Liz is also experienced in defending commercial disputes throughout the upper Midwest, including the representation of manufacturers in breach-of-contract claims and claims of violations of dealership protection laws. A native of northwestern North Dakota, Liz assists clients in agricultural and oil and gas industries with drafting and negotiating agreements vital to their business operations.

Liz is a leader in both state and national defense organizations. She is an active member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) and serves as Chair of its In-House & Law Firm Management Committee. She is Vice-Chair of DRI’s Environmental & Toxic Tort Committee. Locally, Liz is President of the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association and co-founded its Women in the Law committee.

Within the community, Liz has served on the board of directors of the Hennepin County Bar Foundation, which promotes equal access to justice for the people of Hennepin County, and Norway House, a national education center that serves the greater community of Norwegian-Americans. Liz has also traveled to rural Guatemala as a volunteer, to assist with the construction of infrastructure projects.

An Academic All-American distance runner in college, Liz enjoys competing in races and traveling. She has completed the Boston and Chicago Marathons.